Tuesday, September 08, 2009

On the phenomenology of re-view & voodling

"... The former (structuralists), proceeding out of a higher logic, can envision a utopia of signs, of knowledge, and of communication, producing video forms that will be clear, just, and demystified. The latter (phenomenologists) are anxious to change nothing but instead to comprehend a process which flows along perfectly well on its own. Indeed, phenomenologists/voodlers have a longstanding distrust of pure reason, viewing rationality as a single mode of consciousness among others, a mode whose unquenchable thirst to swallow all experience must be restrained precisely because life itself tells us that experience is dearer and more trustworthy than schemes by which we seek to know and change it. [...] The careful manufacture of Voodles is, indeed, part of a broader phenomenological practice. "

Slowly coming to terms with new equipment, new formats and editing platforms, Sam Renseiw montaged bouts of concentrated interior re-viewing, part of a recent workshop, led by his alter-ego, for choreographers, dancers and scenographers. View the concentrated imagery with visual microblends of femme mariee and gai-savoir French sound-bites by clicking here or, on the links above. (patafilm # 721, 01'59'', 31MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

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'Pataphysics, an absurdist concept coined by the French writer Alfred Jarry, is a philosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. Defined as: "The science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments". SPACETWO : PATALAB has functioned in this spirit since 2005 as a dynamic, experimental visual / spatial research laboratory run by SAM RENSEIW. Laced with quotes and useful links, Patalab02 is a forum for subtle, intriguing, complex, enchantingly moving imagery experiments exploring body-space morphologies and other architectures. Enjoy! All posting are videos. Click on the image or the appropriate link in the text to enter. For a view of older videos, see the archive link.